Below is the challenges for August.


August 2007 Writing Challenges

 

Monthly

It's your first time back to the grocery since the manager, in a not-so-kind manner, told you never to bring your kids into his store again.

You're secretly relieved to have to leave them home with your spouse. Thirty minutes later, you return home--without groceries. Egg yolk

is dripping from your hair, chocolate syrup is smeared across your shirt, and smashed produce is sticking to your shoes. What happened?

or

Write a poem or short story about that one moment in our life that will forever be emblazoned

 in our memories. It may be something beautiful, it may be something horrible but in the end, you came out a different person

 

Weekly

8-4-07

Write a poem or short story about a puppy, butterflies and a field of sweet smelling wildflowers

 

Write a poem or short story using the words: love, sailing, nature, ocean, rhyme, sun

 

Write about memories you don’t want to lose

 

Write a short story or poem for a kindergarten

 

Write a short story based on the sentence, I didn’t mean to hurt him

 

Write a short story or poem based on I sing the song that is whispered to me

 

Free write

 

 

8-11-07

Write a short story or poem based on the phrase The way it is

 

Write a poem with the title, We were strangers

 

Write a short story with the title, The best defense

 

Write a short story or poem based on the quote:

I’m a simple girl in this mixed up world

 

Write a short story or poem with the title, “The price of loyalty”

 

Write a short story about a forgotten carriage

 

Free write

 

*8-18-07

 

Write a poem or short story based on the phrase, It hurts

 

Write a short story with the title, All broken up over you

 

Write a poem with the title, Unlock my soul

 

Write a piece based on the phrase, I am willing to see the bigger story of my life

 

Write a short story or poem inspired by the quote by William J. Bennett,

"Home is a shelter from storms, all sorts of storms"

 

Write a poem or short story based on the phrase, sleeping with strangers

 

Free write

 

8-25-07

 

Write a short story or poem with the title, “love & lies”

 

Write a poem with the title, “It’s no secret”

 

Write a short story based on the phrase, Forever a hustler’s wife

 

Write a short story with the title, Normal Again

 

Write a piece based on the phrase, Borrow Trouble

 

Write a poem with the title. A hand to guide me

 

Free write

 

 

Tuesday Temptations

 8-7-07

Write a poem about celebration

Write a story with the title, Turn the page

 

8-14-07

Write a story about yesterday’s songs

Write a poem about Maniac Monday

 

8-21-07

Write a poem about the time of your life

Write a story about True colors

 

8-28-07

Write a story with the title, impossible

Write a poem with the title, I am a Rock

 

Wednesday Sparks

8-1-07

Write a story based on the phrase play by play

Write a poem with the title, Knotted Wire

 

8-8-07

Write a poem based on the phrase Cheek to cheek

Write a story with the title Silver in streams

 

8-15-07

Write a story based on the phrase starry-eyed surprise

Write a poem with the title, Synthetic Surprise

 

8-22-07

Write a poem with the title, a day without expectation

Write a story with the title, you started something

 

8-29-07

Write a story with the title, all in a dream

Write a poem based on the phrase a rose among thorns

 

 

 

 





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